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Turing machines based on unsharp quantum logic

Logic in Computer Science 2012-10-04 v1 Formal Languages and Automata Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

In this paper, we consider Turing machines based on unsharp quantum logic. For a lattice-ordered quantum multiple-valued (MV) algebra E, we introduce E-valued non-deterministic Turing machines (ENTMs) and E-valued deterministic Turing machines (EDTMs). We discuss different E-valued recursively enumerable languages from width-first and depth-first recognition. We find that width-first recognition is equal to or less than depth-first recognition in general. The equivalence requires an underlying E value lattice to degenerate into an MV algebra. We also study variants of ENTMs. ENTMs with a classical initial state and ENTMs with a classical final state have the same power as ENTMs with quantum initial and final states. In particular, the latter can be simulated by ENTMs with classical transitions under a certain condition. Using these findings, we prove that ENTMs are not equivalent to EDTMs and that ENTMs are more powerful than EDTMs. This is a notable difference from the classical Turing machines.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1210.1097,
  title  = {Turing machines based on unsharp quantum logic},
  author = {Yun Shang and Xian Lu and Ruqian Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.1097},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

In Proceedings QPL 2011, arXiv:1210.0298

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